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Subject: TURNER, JOSEPH MALLORD W. (1775-1851)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` KATRINA ON THE PORCH; A BIT OF TURNER PUT INTO WORDS, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An old, old house by the side of the sea
Last Line: O'er the luminous air-built castle.
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851)


ON TURNER'S POLYPHEMUS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Painter of day, let my dark spirit fly
Last Line: Of hyacinthine mist, and shining gold.
Subject(s): Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851)


SONNET ON TURNER'S PICTURE, OF THE TEMERAIRE MAN-OF-WAR, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See how that small concentrate fiery force
Last Line: Home of great thoughts, memorial temeraire!
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Ships & Shipping; Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851)


THE TEMERAIRE, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gloomy hulls, in armor grim
Last Line: O, the temeraire no more!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Sea Battles; Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851); United States - History; Naval Warfare


TURNER'S INTERIOR AT PETWORTH, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somewhere there is always the light,
Last Line: Yes, we are reflections, but we are life.
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851)


TURNER'S OLD TEMERAIRE: UNDER A FIGURE SYMBOLIZING THE CHURCH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou wast the fairest of all man-made things
Last Line: And the tired waves of thought's insurgent sea
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters; Protestantism; Sea Battles; Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851)


TURNER'S SUNRISE, by HELEN SMITH BEVINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I miss the sun. Especially this winter
Last Line: But,' answered turner, 'don't you wish you could?'
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851)